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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 287336" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Dun is right. But if one tree in that proximity gets it, from drought or whatever, and then the county comes around butchering, bugs are going to spread it from one tree to the next one. </p><p></p><p>There is a neighbor about a mile away that had one cured. It was a huge oak in his front yard probably 100 years old. Seems it was $1600. They dug the dirt away from the roots and drilled and tapped the roots with pipe threads or the like. Then they pressure treated the tree with something. The pressure drives curing chemicals all the way up the tree. </p><p></p><p>Seems I also remember them telling me that if you ever cut the tree there will be a colored ring for the year it was pressure treated. </p><p></p><p>They saved that tree for those folks. </p><p></p><p>The tornadoes that came through here in May 2003 ripped up many of my oaks around my house. An old one right out back got a reverse mohawk. I got to thinking about those bugs and climbed up there with a pump up sprayer with insecticide. I sprayed anything that looked bare and everything else around the tree just to keep any bugs from hitting it. Must have worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 287336, member: 3162"] Dun is right. But if one tree in that proximity gets it, from drought or whatever, and then the county comes around butchering, bugs are going to spread it from one tree to the next one. There is a neighbor about a mile away that had one cured. It was a huge oak in his front yard probably 100 years old. Seems it was $1600. They dug the dirt away from the roots and drilled and tapped the roots with pipe threads or the like. Then they pressure treated the tree with something. The pressure drives curing chemicals all the way up the tree. Seems I also remember them telling me that if you ever cut the tree there will be a colored ring for the year it was pressure treated. They saved that tree for those folks. The tornadoes that came through here in May 2003 ripped up many of my oaks around my house. An old one right out back got a reverse mohawk. I got to thinking about those bugs and climbed up there with a pump up sprayer with insecticide. I sprayed anything that looked bare and everything else around the tree just to keep any bugs from hitting it. Must have worked. [/QUOTE]
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